a vote of uncertainty the second phase of egypt's beleaguered constitution referendum begins amid violent showdowns between its backers and opponents. russia moves a step closer to banning child adoptions by u.s. citizens will look at tragic cases of abuse where foster parents got away with surprisingly liam punishments. am tired of choosing too often israeli voters say they've had enough parliament chopping and changing a women as they are asked to turn out yet again.

this is their take on media live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program it is voting in the second round of the referendum on the draft constitution which is polarizing the country and which has triggered bloody street battles in key cities saturday's vote on the islamist refuse documents which already won the approval in the first leg was preceded by another flash of anger war and doubts from journalist belcher in cairo. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates have headed to the polling stations today to vote in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was about to be violent we saw clashes in the second city alexandria between those two is full of the constitution very few against the constitution. is a list staged

a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution and implementation of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they are cars and buses something these buses belong to the muslim brotherhood police intervened with take out beating seventy seven injured so this obviously comes on the the several instances of violence is. in iraq few weeks ago inquiring from the president with rival groups even ten dead in terms of people are saying here on the streets the country is divided so three can the constitution say will only in force the president to a dictatorship but it lacks a key social economic right to have drafted by islamist dominated assembly for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy and that after the congress is dross they say we will have parliamentary elections in the first round of course the votes of people voted in fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution analysts believe that this will be another yes vote this is largely because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of them

a rule of cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong support base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the parliamentary or in the presidential elections leaving many to believe that this will in fact be a yes vote the opposition forces for that part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was do you see vote rigging rights groups. human several cases of electoral violations including unsupervised polling stations leading voter rights groups on the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying is actually null and void the issue digital supervision remains a point of contention here as thousands of judges continue to boycott the referendum it really will be tough to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on today in the early hours of tomorrow morning but definitely people expect by their own rest in the streets either way that both sides refuse to back down. well whether this is a revolution second win or a side effect of political transition with haney in an analysis on the latest on

the wrist in egypt at r.t. dot com a five hundred dollar a panel t.v. four desecrate in court coming out no jail time just a demotion and a pay cut that's all the punishment a u.s. marine gets for you or an aging on dad of on soldiers. also i have britain's increasingly cold feet over being in the e.u. then of wides rattling nerves across the atlantic. russia's lower house of parliament has passed a bill banning all adoptions of russian children by americans it's part of a larger document aimed at preventing human rights abuses of russians abroad granted to count looks at the cases which raise the alarm with lawmakers. the adoption agreement the russian the us sighting of ember was designed to provide mechanisms of oversight for russian children adopted by american families but moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an

adopted children schoolgirls there are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized once the adoption is finalized the child is considered the same as if you were born into that family one thousand russian children have died in the hands of their adoptive parents in the us in recent years there is untold numbers of children that are. enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their death better just surviving the case of matia allen who was adopted from russia. and she was placed in the home of the head a file she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting and she told. reporters and

such that she waited every day and kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency to place to their would come back and check on her would even telephone and ask her how things were doing and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came to check on her much of the fury in moscow over the brutal treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american judges have shown towards a number of abusers the adoptive father of two year old jimmy gaffney was acquitted of the people got the boy his car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born aceh craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the quavers have dodged a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges of also shown leniency in

cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child jessica beagley was the probation officer went on a popular t.v. show and bragged of how should this appoint her adopted russian child by systematically cramming hot sauce into his mouth and putting him on the cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another are some form of symbiotes who was allegedly abused by his car repairs according to florida credit that the cases of abuse of prompted reaction from russia's popular cobra used in the speech the judges will not even let us attend the u.s. trials as observers at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation around us adoption seems even more dire the u.s. accounts for around this third of all goring adoptions in russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year but the latest development has doubt over whether that good word can continue the argument that if there's the flight is chance for an orphan to find a happy home they should be given that chance is on doubted but just as

indisputable seem to be or given that there has to be more oversight over the well being of these children because with the way things are now dozens of adoptive children could be subject to abuse right at this moment and we may never find out in washington i'm going to check on. well greek banks are now lining up for a bailout of their own athens and dive back schemes brings the country's biggest banks to their knees and left was no choice but to bag for another rescue. and rock obama makes his pick for the next secretary of state with hopes that john kerry could be the want to tone down america's military minus foreign policy. and reduction in their. rank and a five hundred dollars pay cut that's what it will cost a u.s. marine sergeant for a difficult writing the bodies of dad taleban soldiers he was found guilty of year in aiding on and posing with their corpses a retired u.s. colonel and diplomat and right says the people of afghanistan feel

a lot of anger over american troops behavior oh i was in afghanistan last week and i talked to a lot of people in afghanistan and they are very. they are outraged about these things that are u.s. military people have been doing to them the brutal slaughter of people i mean over and above that where you have sergeant bales' it has. killed sixteen afghans you have this incident the u.s. military personnel the marines urinating on the the bodies. taliban you have. to have the koran being burned on a military base so afghans are very upset about what the u.s. military is doing there president obama has nominated senator john kerry as a candidate for the job of the usa stop diplomat the vietnam veteran an anti-war

activist could take over from hillary clinton who promised to stand down next year ivan eland a fan tallis and senior fellow at the in the palin insta do you believe kerry can't tamper down washington's foreign policy. i think he's actually a better choice than susan rice i think he'll be more restrained in advocating u.s. military intervention since he was a vietnam war veteran now he's been for some wars but he was he's been overall i think he's been a restraining influence on the on the u.s.'s chairman of the foreign relations winning of course he has a lot of experience he has combat experience in vietnam and many of the people who were in vietnam with john mccain as these the big exception are more restrained in their foreign policy they're not as excited to see the send us service men and women into harm's way and i think that that's probably a good thing at this stage deadlock over debt and spending is seeing the united states hurdling towards a fiscal cliff that will trigger

a wife for tax rises and government cuts on new year's day to tackle the fast approaching deadline congress members have gone on holiday or has been out to find anyone who thinks they deserve the break. as many hard working americans look forward to taking a break from the grind so does congress did they deserve a holiday this week let's talk about that we're talking today about congress because they're that take their break right now you're already rolling your eyes i've only just said the word awful it's awful what you can do they don't do anything and they're taking a break well yeah because that's what they do they don't do anything and they're going to do you think that they have been working hard enough to deserve a holiday never and i won't say anymore because it'll be

a bad word of those going to go on kick the can down the road a little bit for the next year yeah and nothing's going to change something may change with who's going to want to know about the deal with the next year so you work more than one hundred forty days a year so everyone deserves some time off the extent of it that's another story so yeah i do think they should get a break but with the fiscal cliff being what it is they should probably work through the holidays which do you think that they know what the answer is and they're just kind of posturing because you know republicans have to say that they're not going to raise taxes democrats have to say they're not going to make cuts but at the end of the day they're going to compromise absolutely they have to so what with this posturing bad enough of that why don't they just get real. i think part of politics is being reelected and so the politicians need to seem to their constituents. loyal and sometimes beyond reasonable bounds are we that stupid some people are what's the answer. i think the answer is is it is more more public

scrutiny of their performance or public involvement and in the process and does that involve more intelligent public to get involved a better informed public and a public that is just paying closer attention to what these people are doing so maybe a media that's less bought by corporate interests that keep feeding into the political machine that would be helped the bottom line is no congress does not deserve a holiday but they probably are going to enjoy more vacation then we commoners could ever imagine so just remember that as you take your measly vacation this year . it watching r t and more world news is on the way for you from our team moscow in just a few minutes stay with us. i

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majors free is free. to type free. mode free broadcast quality video for your media projects a freebie dioguardi dot com. welcome back you're watching argue live from moscow israelis are expected to trudge back to the polling stations again next month and a parliamentary election that's happening earlier than planned no government has survived a full term in office for decades and spotlessly reports voting fatigue is rife. call us money as you know him back in my political career i was minister of regional cooperation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigration and as option and minister of justice even held this post signal tenuously that it doesn't mean i'm talented at what is just shows that the

system is so messed up to be toyed. it's a system that's been in place since the founding of the state sixty four years ago it's seen thirty four governments in sixty four years that's a new israeli government almost every two years and a new minister just as often in the last twenty years there have been twenty interior ministers fourteen foreign ministers and fifteen justice ministers and now more and more israelis are saying enough and joining a movement to change the political system as i say a little pot but how about a young citizen ghost elections so many times you starts to lose the sense that this is a democracy not for nothing of the past ten years voter turnout has decreased from eighty to sixty four percent where the be able. to clear when i was eventually. but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online

campaign by local celebrities shows that whenever someone tries to talk about it they're interrupted blah blah blah blah. the motions are prime minister says he must call for elections because he can't pass the budget he's scared that his coalition members may bring down his government and we will act as if. we really say there's no problem with our system nasty critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. we're going to show that we seized them here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra orthodox. right wing extremists and so on and in fact the soon to be becomes a hostage to these marginal groups there is no democracy there's crissy the minority rule with the majority what. another problem is that because government ministers change so often they can't plan. today

and minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision and a long term planning he's no longer there. what many of these people want is a complete overhaul of the system with parliamentary elections slated for the mixture israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but they tolerance is running thin with latest figures suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with its government's performance points here r.t. tel aviv britain's resurgent hero skepticism is now even getting the us a little worried that washington's afraid of losing its of wendall ally in the european union and is even a warning of consequences if the u.k. leaves the blog but political analyst robert oulds says it's britain's business alone. i think the people in britain really will make their own minds up about a future we don't need what to don't need to be told what to do by someone from

another country be that the united states or or still the president of the european commission for that matter really put president obama needs to understand is that the european union is actually damaging for you it's actually undermining the economy of different member states many member states are suffering a very harshly as a result of these economic policies policies which he has thought believe objective and he wouldn't like to be told how to manage his economy by an unaccountable bureaucracy like other countries in europe countries in the eurozone are being told how to manage their own affairs having to think over forced upon them so really he needs to perhaps learn a little bit more about the undemocratic nature of the european union before commenting well all four of greece's largest banks arguing out for a bailout after posting huge losses this year their reason though could be their own government for landers took hits during a stay down buyback scheme green iran is the major e.c.

our boss says it all leaves the country in even worse shape it's not the banks that have failed it's. the economic situation that was created that has decimated the greek banking sector which was much more one of the most resilient. in europe it was not never exposed to toxic instruments. fine but. we had forty thousand small businesses closing closing these student loans and. unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really on the one hand australian t.v. on the other hand bank in ability to. provide life we do for them are. well until a long running charade battles over education reform have seen more trouble in the

capitol hundreds of students have again clashed with police there in what's been more than a year and a half of protest leaders of the movement say they're fed up with low standards of private universities students want a major victory two days ago when chile's justice minister has ties to one of the colleges was forced to resign over a corruption scandal there. and central china firefighters struggled for seven hours to contain a massive blaze which raged through a sixteen story office building it's thought one man a security guard is still trapped inside around fifty people staying in a hotel on the upper floors were evacuated to safety and more than a dozen people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. while america's fiscal cliff hanger is just one of the money matters on americans' minds this capital account explains that in just

a few minutes here in our district. the sun rises over what seems like and most forest but here in the new directions quite hundred kilometers north of life i'll stop as much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. mortgages both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system filing down the forests of the more skewed region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy logger set up trucks making them hard to reach in an

already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve we're only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed cording to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable to member over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy the forest is enormous and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander some morning call has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of. blogger's you should see it's easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you

can see that the ground is soft here which means that these twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now is they started so therefore more fall for this legislation so as soon as the bells and so on the river grabs a new forest court and according to. the guys in waltham in the in the forest through the still the forest courts still doesn't work just do what you do with no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do look it's

a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm more in leicester here in washington d.c. busier headlines for friday december twenty first two thousand and twelve today is a good time to reflect on this. by now which predicts. on the twenty first except this year. that would be today and the world didn't end i think it's fair to say so we will reflect on what may lie ahead in the coming new year reflect on this year in economic trends dave column is

a cornell chemistry professor but he's known in finance for his annual year in review which is out today and he is here in studio to talk about it plus you wes stocks drop as house republicans cancel a vote on the fiscal cliff political disarray hit stock markets those were how the headlines read today when i came into work what is this just white noise we'll talk about signs of a broken market that go far beyond the day to day news reported we moving them plus from market scandals to our very own we'll break down what you loved and hated this week in viewer feedback let's get to today's capital account.

well the world didn't end today as some argue the mayan calendar predicted but this millennial error can at least teach us a thing or two about the pitfalls of prediction something fitting given the nature of financial forecasts and also fitting as our guest references it in a small way in his two thousand and twelve year in review he writes this review every december and this year it covers the gamut from broken markets to broke students saddled with more debt than those charging up their credit cards it's out today you can read it chris martenson is web site which is pretty peak prosperity dot com and you can hear him talk about it now on our show because david columns here he's a betty are miller professor of chemistry at cornell university and author of the year in review out for two thousand and twelve today so first thanks for being on the show it's my pleasure second let's talk about why you as an organic chemistry professor are known for writing a financial.